Re: SSL Certificate signing problem

["Adrian C." <drupix@gmail.com>]

One more thing, if i try a load-balancing with ip route will it know
to failover if one of the routes fails?


On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:07:19 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings@kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> Adrian C. wrote:
> > If i assign metric 1 to 1st gway and 2 to 2nd it never falls back from
> > gateway with best metric. Even if it goes down it still sticks to it.
> > Something is terribly wrong. I am running Slackware 10.
> 
> I just went back and re-read what "Unix Networking" and "Linux Network
> Administrator's Guide" have to say about Metrics and I'm wrong.
> They apply to Routing daemons (like RIP and gated) and help pick the
> "fastest" gateways (apparently, the metric is supposed to indicate a
> number of "hops" from here to there....)
> 
> However, what if, you create a process which does nothing else but check
> the status of interface 1.  Set up a default route through interface 1
> with a default metric (of say "2").  When the interface goes down, have
> the process "bring up" the second route by adding it to the routing
> table with a metric of "1".  Now the second interface is the "cheapest".
>   Your process should now continue to monitor the state of interface 1,
> and when it comes back up, you  need to figure out how to "dismantle"
> the second interface.  It could be just as simple as swaping the metrics
> so that interface 1 is now the "fastest" route.
> 
> Like I said before, I'm not a networking expert, and I don't understand
> all the dependancies of already open connections over the various
> routes, but it seems like a pretty simple way to do things.  OTOH, isn't
> this essentially what RIP and gated would do for you?  Inotice that
> Fedora Core 2 has a "routed" package.  Perhaps that has replaced
> RIP/gated in todays world (my documentation is 10-14 years old)?
> 
> Disclaimer:  I don't use RIP or gated (anymore) I have a single default
> interface (cable modem).  The last I tried to use RIP/gated, I was on a
> corperate network over a 9600 baud modem, and the "RIP storms"
> eventually consumed the entire bandwidth of the modem rendering the
> connection unusable.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome@rcn.com
> cummings@kjchome.homeip.net
> cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us
>